On: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages

[leephillips]

In all three cases I find the original PDFs more pleasant to read. HTML typography is not up to snuff. I read them on a laptop, however, and I can see that this would be useful if one is forced to read on a phone.

(One thing that is very ugly in the PDFs, and most scholarly papers, is the use of different-colored boxes for hyperlinks. Authors, please consider putting

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

in your LaTeX preambles.)

[sp332 → leephillips]

For me the PDF was fuzzier https://imgur.com/a/WJ5y3 and the HTML version was more convenient to read in a single column. The two-column format is nice if I'm skimming to see if a paper is going to be interesting, but when I sit down to read it the HTML version definitely wins.

[Cyph0n → leephillips]

Just tried your suggestion: it ends up looking much uglier with font colors imo.

[leephillips → Cyph0n]

The default saturated colors are a bit garish. But you can set them to be anything you want. See the hyperref documentation.